RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Dashrath Manjhi

1934 - 2007

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Dashrath Manjhi (14 January 1934 – 17 August 2007), also known as Mountain Man, was an Indian laborer from Gehlaur village, near Gaya in the eastern state of Bihar. When his wife died in 1959 after being injured from falling from a mountain and due to the same mountain blocking easy access to a nearby hospital in time, he decided to carve a 110-metre-long (360 ft), 9.1-metre-wide (30 ft), and 7.7-metre-deep (25 ft) path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel. After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 55 km (34 mi) to 15 km (9.3 mi). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dashrath Manjhi has received more than 4,341,846 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Dashrath Manjhi is the 1,298th most popular religious figure (up from 1,504th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from India (up from 272nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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  • 56.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 1,298 out of 3,187. Before him are Diego Laynez, Saint Fiacre, Joanna, wife of Chuza, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Andrey Sheptytsky, and Paisius Velichkovsky. After him are Pedro Arrupe, Nicetas of Remesiana, Antipope Philip, Benno, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, and Uppalavanna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 120. Before him are Kira Muratova, Paul Cohen, Gloria Steinem, Howard Martin Temin, Wilford Brimley, and Jean Chrétien. After him are Hank Aaron, William F. Sharpe, Leonard Kleinrock, Claude Berri, George Segal, and George Chakiris. Among people deceased in 2007, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 94. Before him are Arawa Kimura, Karel Svoboda, Hrant Dink, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Ralph Asher Alpher, and Viliam Schrojf. After him are Gordon Scott, Ulrich Mühe, Pierre Messmer, Raymond Barre, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, and Al Oerter.

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In India

Among people born in India, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 232 out of 1,861. Before him are Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), Raja Ravi Varma (1848), and Dignāga (480). After him are Shah Alam II (1728), Jahandar Shah (1661), Aamir Khan (1965), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Kadambini Ganguly (1861), and Jahanara Begum (1614).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Dashrath Manjhi ranks 25. Before him are Anthony de Mello (1931), George Alencherry (1945), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Guru Angad (1504), Parshvanatha (-872), and Śāntarakṣita (725). After him are Meher Baba (1894), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Guru Amar Das (1479), Zakir Naik (1965), Mahinda (-285), and Swaminarayan (1781).

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